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Offline BigDumbWookiee

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Playing the lottery... Do you feel lucky?
« on: February 18, 2004, 03:38 PM »
Well, for the first time ever, last week, on a whim, I decided to play the Hoosier Lottery. I bought $20 worth of tickets. Well today, I went in and had them scanned to see what I won. The cashier handed me four free quick picks. I was pretty psyched, not too shabby winning four free tickets. Well, I started to leave, and she said "Hold on, you have more!", handed me a receipt and $43! :)  Not too bad for the only time I've ever played the Hoosier Lottery...

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Re: What a lucky day!
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2004, 03:53 PM »
Not bad Adam...  You're 3.6% of the way to that Master Replicas AT-AT now!   ;)

I've never won jack off the California lottery, despite usually tossing my hat into the ring when it hits the $50 million mark (since I couldn't live off of any winnings less than that  :P).

But I still have plans on winning big, and collecting all the SW loot I could ever dream of, and having a gigantic mansion with more than enough room to display it all!   8)
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Re: What a lucky day!
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2004, 04:02 PM »
I WILL have a MR ATAT! :) And I wont sacrifice my mini busts or my Kubrick. Definately not my Kubricks ;)
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Re: What a lucky day!
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2004, 04:37 PM »
i have wanted to play the lotto for so long, but i cant until i am 18, that totally sucks!! Any of you know what the legal age is to gamble, i get confused on if it is 18 or 21.
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Re: What a lucky day!
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2004, 04:40 PM »
Quote from: BigDumbWookiee on February 18, 2004, 04:02 PM
I WILL have a MR AT-AT! :)

So when you get it, will you patiently wait for more vehicles from MR, or will you step up to the plate (again), and go find the beautiful X-Wing and Tie Fighter that Icons put out a number of years ago?  Pretty sure they were in that same $1,200ish ballpark...

God, I'd love to add those 3 items to my collection, but I'd also have to find a new wife if I did.  I'll have to think about it...   :P
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Re: What a lucky day!
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2004, 04:40 PM »
That is a State by State age limit, most places it is 18 but I think places like Nevada its 21
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Re: What a lucky day!
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2004, 04:44 PM »
I thought it was 18, well i dont really know what else to say.  I dont want to make this reply short, and have Chris yell at me again so, that is cool.  Cant wait to play my first time, hopefully i can win something, heh!
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Re: What a lucky day!
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2004, 04:51 PM »
We have a State Run Lottery Here, Power Ball and Native American Casinos, right now the STate is thinking of opening their own Casino which seriously tick off the Native Americans and in effect break a treaty they signed in the 1990's saying the state won't do that.  The state also runs the Horse Track in the Twin Cities which is where they want to put the casino.  Revenue would go to fund Sports Stadiums, Roads and Education, I'm for that as long as they only build one and they put it at the same spot as the Horse Track
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Re: What a lucky day!
« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2004, 05:20 PM »
I never win stuff like that. You know how you're supposed to get free "I-tunes" with Pepsi? I haven't even won one of those yet. I swear the odds would say I should have one, but nope.

I won a free Twix once, from the Twix website....but it turned out it was a coupon for a Twix ice cream bar. Who the hell wants a Twix ice cream bar?


SO...I have decided that when I come to Indianapolis for C3, I am going to play the lottery there. If BDW can do it, so can I.
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Re: What a lucky day!
« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2004, 07:54 PM »
Quote from: JediMAC on February 18, 2004, 04:40 PM
Quote from: BigDumbWookiee on February 18, 2004, 04:02 PM
I WILL have a MR AT-AT! :)

So when you get it, will you patiently wait for more vehicles from MR, or will you step up to the plate (again), and go find the beautiful X-Wing and Tie Fighter that Icons put out a number of years ago?  Pretty sure they were in that same $1,200ish ballpark...

God, I'd love to add those 3 items to my collection, but I'd also have to find a new wife if I did.  I'll have to think about it...   :P

Nah, I havent heard enough stories that would truly compel me to buy the Icons ships. They look pretty nice, but Ive heard horror stories about sagging wings, etc. I'll hold out (and save up) for more MR releases.

I'd expect an XWing and TIE Fighter to be fairly high on the list, along with a Millennium Falcon, and the Star Destroyer and Death Star which they've been talking about since the beginning...
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Re: What a lucky day!
« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2004, 08:02 PM »
Not sure how your lotteries are with the odds, but ours are miserable.  It's ok to throw a couple of bucks in when it gets bigger, but the odds are still so awful.  

Stats courses in school prove useful.  Learning how to calculate odds helps save a lot of money.  Our typically large lottery up here has a one in roughly fourteen million chance of winning it all.  Even winning $10 has rather high odds against.  One in 42K.  Mind you everyone claims to always win $10.  Same as going to Vegas and no one loses there.  I wonder how they stay in business.  

Give me a huge sum of money to start any business I like and I'll start a national lottery.  I'll give you back double what you gave me within two years and still be filthy rich.  
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Re: What a lucky day!
« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2004, 08:25 PM »
THe biggest thing I have won on a Califorina Lottery Ticket was around $25 or so.  I don't play that mush unlike my mom who has played ever since the gane came out and she says one day she will win (hopefully she does) ;D.  
I did however win $100 on aq scather ticket that cost me $3 while on my lunch break at work.  It cost my store a high Lottery coustmer because she got mad that another employee palyed right after she turned in some tickets from the machine.  This lady would play the same game until she hit a bnig prize but left when she saw the other person buy a ticket from the game she was playing.  Three other people from my work played that game before I did and I was the one who got the winning ticket. :) 8)
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Re: What a lucky day!
« Reply #12 on: February 18, 2004, 10:15 PM »
never hit the lottery for more than $5 or $10, and that is usually on the scratch off tickets, but i did pretty well one night done in atlantic city a few years back. played blackjack for a few hours, and after buying dinner, show tickets, and a $300 bar tab for myself and 5 friends, still went home with about $800 of mr. trump's money  ;D

but he's gotten that all back - plus interest - in my several trips there since that day...  ::)
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Re: What a lucky day!
« Reply #13 on: February 18, 2004, 10:25 PM »
Quote from: JoshEEE on February 18, 2004, 05:20 PM
I never win stuff like that. You know how you're supposed to get free "I-tunes" with Pepsi? I haven't even won one of those yet. I swear the odds would say I should have one, but nope.

I'm with you on that one Josh.

I'm an almost religious Coca-Cola drinker. However, I'm also a Mac guy. Serious conflict there, until I gave serious thought to the economics of the whole 1 in 3 odds thing.

If I'm going to spend $1+ on a soda and have a one in three chance of getting a free iTune... Well, I'd rather drink a Coke and pony up a buck for a song I want. I know, it's not a free song. But neither were the six Pepsi's I drank last week.

On the other hand, if I had a one in three cahnce at a Segway Human Transport in every Pepsi...
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9 hours later...
« Reply #14 on: February 19, 2004, 02:35 AM »
Quote from: JoshEEE on February 18, 2004, 05:20 PM
I never win stuff like that. You know how you're supposed to get free "I-tunes" with Pepsi? I haven't even won one of those yet. I swear the odds would say I should have one, but nope.

Still conflicted here with my love of the idea about free music. I stumbled across this on the web tonight:

How to WIN iTunes from Pepsi



It's worth the read. My favorite part was: "Pepsi has stated they believe they will have to pay for about 1/3 of the 100 million songs it's giving away. That means 2/3 of the people that win don't care about iTunes. So I say, let's let them have the unlucky caps. They weren't going to cash them in anyway."

Perhaps our luck is changing!
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